my.Top.50.(Songs/Albums).of.2016

Top.50.(Albums/Songs).of.2016

1. David Bowie - "Lazarus" - Blackstar
2. ANOHNI - "Drone Bomb Me" - HOPELESSNESS 
3. White Lies - "Take It out on Me" - Friends
4. Santigold - "Rendezvous Girl" - 99 Cents
5. Låpsley - "Tell Me the Truth" - Long Way Home
6. Glass Animals - "Youth" - How to Be a Human Being 
7. Banks & Steelz - "Wild Season (feat. Florence Welch)" - Anything But Words
8. Metronomy - "Old Skool" - Summer 08
9. Niki & The Dove - "Lost Ub" - Everybody's Heart Is Broken Now
10. Two Door Cinema Club - "Lavender" - Gameshow
11. Plague Vendor - "No Bounty" - BLOODSWEAT
12. Lizzo - "Ride" - Big Grrrl Small World
13. Run River North - "Run and Hide"
14. Bloc Party - "Only He Can Heal Me" - Hymns
15. Peter Bjorn and John - "Love Is What You Want" - Breakin' Point
16. Teleman - "Düsseldorf" - Brilliant Sanity
17. Savages - "Evil" - Adore Life
18. Formation - "All the Rest is Noise" - Under the Tracks - EP
19. Crystal Castles - "Fleece" - Amnesty (I)
20. IAMX - "Aphrodisiac" - Metanoia
21. Mainland - "Outcast"
22. Sia - "Cheap Thrills" - This is Acting
23. The Big Pink - "Hightimes" Empire Underground - EP
24. T.O.L.D - "There's No Truth" - It's Not About the Witches
25. Tiga - "3 Rules" - No Fantasy Required 
26. Coasts - "Golden City" - Coasts
27. Empire of the Sun - "Way to Go"
28. Little Green Cars - "Clair de Lune"
29. STRFKR - "Never Ever" - Being No One, Going Nowhere
30. The Coathangers - "Make It Right" - Nosebleed Weekend
31. Jagwar Ma - "O B 1" - Every Now & Then
32. Azealia Banks - "The Big Big Beat"
33. Digitalisim - "Destination Breakdown"
34. James Supercave - "Virtually a Girl" - Better Strange 
35. Pumarosa - "Priestess"
36. Warpaint - "So Good" - Heads Up
37. Tokyo Police Club - "PCH" - Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness, Pt. 1 - EP
38. Yeasayer - "I Am Chemistry" - Amen & Goodbye
39. Sir Sly - "Expectations"
40. Suuns - "UN-NO"
41. Lady Gaga - "Million Reasons"
42. The Stone Roses - "Beautiful Thing"
43. The Last Shadow Puppets - "Bad Habits"
44. Litany - "Work This Out"
45. The Zolas - "Freida on the Mountain"
46. Club Kuru - "Seesaw"
47. Tirman Kid - "Gotta Do Something"
48. Beaty Heart - "Slide to the Side"
49. Fat White Family - "Whitest Boy on the Beach"
50. Spring Kings - "It's so Dark" - Tell Me If You Like To

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Lollapalooza.2011.(Friday)

Lollapalooza.(Friday).2011

Grant Park, Chicago, IL

August.5.2011

My new flight was scheduled at 7am and we actually took off. I arrived around 9:30 at O'Hare. I noticed alot of people for the concert when I was in line for my Metro card. Got on the Blue Line and arrived to the hotel around 11am. Eliane was in the shower and Samy and Raquel where still in bed, but awake. I unpacked quickly and got ready.

We arrived to Lolla around 1:45p and they gave us the three day wrist band that looked so much like Coachella's. Nice. They stopped handing out there thick schedule book. I guess they really want to go GREEN this year, but they did have a pamphlet with a map of the grounds and the time schedules of the bands for the weekend. I downloaded there app before I got to Chicago and let me tell you, it ROCKs! It's way better than Coachella's app. Perry really brings the BEST to this festival.

We headed to the food stands because we where all hungry. Raquel requested that we should have the Lobster Dog. Lobster Dog? She said, "they are the talk of Lolla that it is a MUST try" and it sure was. That $H!T was GOOD! After eating, I wanted to see Reptar.

The band members from Reptar came out and I was (in my mind), "this is gonna be bad" because they looked like Hippie's with bad clothing on. The keyboardest was the strangest one. He had on this bright blue body suit that was soooooo tight that showed his family jewels. Not a sight I wanted to see for the first day, maybe at night. It was a bizzare looking band and the second drummer broke out with these tiny cymbals and hit them. "This is REALLY gonna be BAD!". They played the first song and it sounded a bit off and I gave them another chance. The second song was a bit better until they played the third song and I was in. They reminded me of Vampire Weekend with a funky laidback feel. I stuck around for thirty minutes because I wanted to catch Foster the People. When I turned around, I did not see Elaine, Samy or Raquel. I looked around the whole Goggle+ Stage for about ten minutes and nothing. I texted them and there was no signal. $H!T, here we go. I decided to just go because I did not want to miss Foster the People. When I got to the stage where they where playing, it was !NSANE. Wow, they really blew up fast. It was a mission to get in and I just said, "FCVK !T". So I headed to the other stage to see White Lies. It was less crowded and it was easy to get to the front. Nice. You can hear the set of Foster the People in the background and they closed out there set with "Helena Beat" and "Waste" (of course), but hey sounded great.

White Lies hit the stage after Foster the People and they K!LLED !T. This is my first time seeing them at an outdoor venue and they sounded AMAZ!NG. The hour set went by so fast that people wanted more. I wanted MORE! They ended there set with "Bigger Than Us". Nice. After there set I went across the other stage (Sony Stage) to checkout Two Door Cinema Club and there was already a crowd, but not as bad as Foster the People. I kept looking at my phone and still no connection. This $H!T SUX.

Once again, Two Door Cinema Club played a amazing set and CONGRATS to them. This band has not stopped touring and it payed off. Just last year, they played The Troubadour, the begining of the year at The Music Box and in a couple of month's, they play The Wiltern and they only have one album out! Thats pretty AW3SUM! Can not wait for the new album and I hope they release it by the end of the year.

I had a hour to kill after there set and I went to grab some food. I got a text from Samy and Eliane but that was an hour ago. I wrote back and told them that I was gonna see Crystal Castels at the Sony Stage. I grabbed a Deep Dish Pizza and it was really GOOD and only $5.00 for a huge slice. I sat by the Google+ Stage and I heard Tinie Tempah in the background. He sounded really good. I was gonna go check him out, but I was running out of time. I headed to the Sony Stage and there was a crowd, but not to crazy yet. I guess some people are busy watching A Perfect Circle across the way. In less then ten minutes, there was a crowd slowly forming. Once Crystal Castles hit the stage, it was madness. People started to move forward and I followed. I was next to this crazy girl who would not shut the FCVK UP about Alice Glass (Lead Singer). She kept on saying, "she is so beautiful. Look at her. I want her haircut. She is a mess and that is why I LOVE her!". She kept saying this for a good five minutes in that same order. Then she was pushed aside by some kids. Thank GOD! Alice Glass was a mess! She looked a bit out of it too. On some songs, she looked like she was not singing, but it was another CRAZY Crystal Castles show. Alice Glass cast was off, but you can tell her leg is slowly recovering. She kept going in the crowd a couple of times. There was one point where they stood her up so she can walk but that only lasted a couple of seconds. The set went fast and they closed it with "Not In Love". People wanted more and some stuck around hoping for them to come out, but nothing.

I walked across to the other stage to catch MUSE. Okay...For a second, I thought I stepped on $H!T because I kept smelling it around me. But it was this field. I guess they decided to put some manure before the event. Not a good idea because the heat and that smell is not a nice mix. But anyway, MUSE once again K!LLED it. They ROCK. The sound was amazing. The stage lighting was awesome and the visuals where cool. What a PERFECT band to end the night for me. Day One is over and still no good connection. Once I walked out of the venue I heard Coldplay from faraway. They sounded good. Of course I get a connection now that I am out of the Lolla grounds, of course.

\m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ - AW3SUM!

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Turn.OFF.the.L!GHT

M!X.52.(the.Playlist)

.01. "Fingers On the Button"_____David E. Sugar

.02. "Your Joy Is My Low"_____IAMX

.03. "Do You Need Someone"_____Beth Ditto

.04. "Yeah Yeah Yeah"_____The Sounds

.05. "Don't Lose My Time"_____Heartbreak

.06. "Heavy Metal Lover"_____Lady GaGa

.07. "Arcadia (Telefon Tel Aviv Edit Version)"_____Apparat

.08. "Farewell To The Fairground (Rory Phillips White Horse Mix)"_____White Lies

.09. "Pump Up The Volume (U.S. Remix)"_____M/A/R/R/S

.10. "Step Up"_____Hercules And Love Affair

.11. "Show Me Love"_____Robin S.

.12. "Blockhead (In Flagranti Remix)"_____Punks Jump Up

.13. "The Prayer (Phones Metal Jackin' Mix)"_____Bloc Party

.14. "Sometimes"_____Miami Horror

.15. "Hold My Breath"_____Holy Ghost!

.16. "Games"_____The Strokes

.17. "Getaways"_____Big Talk

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WHiTE.LiES (LiVE!) @the.Troubadour (Los Angeles, CA)

White.Lies

@the.Troubadour

Monday.January.24.2011

SOLD OUT! Good for them to sell out the Troubadour tonight. That's big. Now that I am familiar with the new songs from the new album "Ritual", can not wait to hear them live once again. They played a couple of new songs last year at the EchoPlex that sounded promising.

Giant Drag was the opening band and I missed them. Who knew these bands are gonna go on so early. Usually bands go on late at the Troubadour...but not tonight. White Lies are scheduled to go on at 9:30 and they did. I went to checkout the shirts and they where...BAD! They where old shirts from two years ago. What the hell. I guess they are left overs that did not sell. They had this wolf on the front with the band logo on top or on the bottom, I forgot. I saw it from far and turned away quick. You can get better one's from there website.

HELL YEA! They played my favorite track from the new album, "The Power & The Glory" and it sounded AMAZING! Is it me or did they cut that song short? It felt short for a strange reason. "The Power & The Glory" was the second encore song and they closed it off with "Bigger Than Us". Nice. At first I was not crazy about that song, but a couple of listens, I was hooked. You should checkout the video. If you like E.T. (the movie), you are gonna love it.

The crowd tonight was older. Let's say, "ALOT of music executives". Sure enough I thought it was gonna be a very uptight crowd, but it was not. I Did not see to many young kids like the other time I saw them. Once they came out and played the first song, people where bopping and singing along. Nice. I thought it was gonna be a tough crowd.

I noticed that Harry McVeigh (lead singer) was wearing the same pant's and shoe's from last year's show at the EchoPlex (that was a great show). Groovy. And Charles Cave (Bass Guitar) was sporting a new facial thing on his face, a beard. He looked at bet like Tim Harrington (Lead Singer of "Les Savy Fav"), but Charles is better looking. It's okay but I prefer him clean cut. Let's shave that $H*T!

Once again, White Lies Rocked it OUT and the new songs sounded great. If you get a kid bouncing up and down half of the show (he was next to me of course), you did your part. Pick up the new album and you gotta see them.

\m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ - Awesome!

YELLE.(LiVE!) @EchoPlex (Los Angeles, CA)

Yelle

@EchoPlex

Friday

November.5.2010

There is a huge line for people who do not have tickets (that's a good sign). That's awesome that she has this really good turnout. It's crazy that she is touring without a new album out (White Lies did it, why can she, right?), but she does have a new single; "La musique" that just came out. This is my first Yelle show. I always keep missing her when she is in town. I never hear anything about her shows, so hear I go.

I am inside and it's a bit busy. I have no idea if the people outside are gonna get in. I am looking into the crowd and I see the skinny jeans, the plaid, the 80's hair do's, leggings and the cool kids. Something that was missing at Gary Numan's concert.

The first band just went on and it felt like we where part of a joke. The beats are cool, but he yells and bounces to much. He is preaching more then singing. Oh no, he just released some balloons from his cape. Okay, this is crazy. Oh $H*T, he just released confette after a crazy speech on STD. Why can't we throw $H*T at bad performer's here? I guess we are more civilized here, but we should. At least paper cups, just for fun. This is CRAZY.

OKAY. This was the $H*T! Yelle KiLLED iT! She opened up with this crazy heavy percussion song that just blew me away. The crowd was getting a bit rough and some people around me gave up. I was standing my ground and sure enough I get this drunk chick standing next to me acting like a a$$hole. I always get some kind of moron and they don't think they are at fault. She called me an a$$ (wow, so original) because I would not give her space. FCVK YOU, PUTA! This bitch just pushed to the front with her other drunk friends and she calls me a name. I just ignored her looking to the stage straight ahead and she complained about me to her friends. Funny. I could see them looking at me, but I was busy watching a concert. Sure enough, they moved. I guess it was my feet in the way. Ooops. The drunk chicks moved away for some strange reason (HAHAhhahaha) and they did not ruin this amazing show. It's crazy that she has this following because she only sings in French. That's awesome. She spoke to us in english and pumped us up on every song. They played some new one's that sound so promising. When they played the old stuff, the crowd went crazy. This was the place to be tonight and the kids where having a blast here. I could go on about the concert, but you have to go and experience yourself. There was no crazy light show, costume changes or dancers. It was her and two other male band members that ROCKED this place out. RIGHT ON! See you at the next Yelle concert. \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/

ViDEO:

WHiTE.LiES (LiVE!) @ECHOPLEX (Los Angeles, CA)

White.Lies

Culture Collide

Saturday

October.9.2010

I am here early and there is a band up there and all the members are wearing sunglasses. It must be really BRIGHT up there since the lights on stage are dim. Groovy. I went to the shirt stand and once again, no White Lies T-shirt. DAM! I was hoping they would have some or at least a sticker. Oh well. I guess they do not need money. I left the shirt table and I went to see if they let you go upstairs, they blocked it off. They should let us roam around. JERKS!

I decided to sit down because none of these bands are catching my interest, so far. I guess I was taking alot of the sofa space that these girls decided to join me. They where funny. They where both from Orange County (I asked because they where so direct and I knew they where not from here). They came to the show just to have fun. They have not heard of any of the bands. A friend told them to go see White Lies and I told them; "Good friend and good choice". They left to get more drinks and they where kind enough to ask if I wanted one, but I said "no". Rock on O.C. girls. The last band announced they last song, so I got up and headed to the front. While I was walking to the main stage, I noticed that its not as busy as it was yesturday. Why is that? Who knows, but I think White Lies are good as Klaxons. Which, I can not wait to hear new stuff from "White Lies".

It was easy to get to the front and I noticed alot of ladies up here. I am watching the roadies set up the stage and I see that they have an extra synth and a microphone from last time I saw them. They added a new member and are they going Editors? They taped the playlist on the floor and I see that they are gonna open up with two new songs, COOL. Next to the playlist I noticed other papers on the floor and it looks like lyrics. We might be getting a sneak peak of the new songs live today. Sweet.

AWESOME performance once again! The new tracks sounded very promising. They did not change much (which is great because I thought they where gonna go Editors on us), they are still this moody dark rock band with a new member on guitar and synth. I loved when they played there old stuff because you heard people singing along to every note with Harry McVeigh (lead vocals and guitar). Then we had this crazy guy shouting some songs to play, like, E.S.T. (they did not play). They payed no attention, but the crowd went wild when they played "Unfinished Business". YES! Even though the crowd was mellow (no crazy drunks or some a$$hole pushing there way to the front) they where into it, even when they played the new stuff. They closed the night with "Farewell to the Fairground". What a perfect song to end this night. AWESOME SHOW!

KLAXONS (LiVE!) @ECHOPLEx (Los Angeles, CA)

KLAXONs

Culture Collide

Friday

October.8.2010

This is the first time Filter Magazine does this event called "Culture Collide" and so far, it's a good turn out. They have bands playing at The Echo, Spaceland, Taix and The Standard Hotel Downtown. It's a small music festival with a very big international band line-up. I got my wristband yesterday in the afternoon just to bet the rush. It's a good deal, only 20 bucks to see a bunch of bands in four days, but I am only here for the headliners; Klaxons, White Lies and Tokyo Police Club. Tonight is Klaxons and I can not wait to hear the new stuff. It's been what, 2 or 3 years since there last album and to see them back at the EchoPlex?!?! AWESUME! Crystal Castles opened up (that's when they where.....who is this band) for them.

I arrived early because the wristband does not guarantee you entrance if the venue is full. It's pretty first come first serve. So I am here early and no line to get in (thank God). When I stepped in to the EchoPlex there was a band called Suuns already playing that reminded me of HomeVideo. Not bad. After there last song, I went to the T-shirt stand and I bought a Klaxons shirt. After I got my shirt, I noticed that you can go to The Echo. Awesum! We are able to walk around both venues, cool. When I went up there, the next band went on and I left back downstairs. AWFUL. Even the band that was playing downstairs was not for me, but they where at least better. When they where over I wanted to go back up stairs to catch The White Lies DJ set, but they closed it off!?!? FCVKRs! I am stuck here until midnight, when Klaxons go on. DAM!

Klaxons hit the stage around 12:15am. Strike 1. When they came out, they did not wear there 2010 New Romantics outfits, FCVKRs! That's strike 2. But they did a killer show. The new stuff sounded GREAT live and the old stuff sounded fresh. I was surprised that the crowd was a bit tame. That was cool for me, but I was very surprised about that. I thought someone would get crazy and start a pit or something, but nothing. Not even a glow stick was present. Nice. The last song they played was "It's Not Over Yet" and they almost hit a home run with this show but they got a strike 3. No encore and people booed. It was sure over.